This Week in Elasticsearch - January 21, 2015

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Zachary Tong authored a tutorial to help you get the most out of Elasticsearch as an analytics engine: Introduction to Aggregations. A must read for anyone looking to get the most out of their Elasticsearch deployments beyond full-text search, and the first in a series of post on Elasticsearch and Analytics. Stay tuned to this blog for more!

Nikos Fertakis shared an article on how Skroutz - a Greek price comparison website serving up details on more than 7.5M products - uses ELK to make their customers' lives better. The entire deep dive is quite useful, but the infrastructure architecture bits and their use of scripted aggregations is particularly interesting.

Slides & Videos

Phil Wills from TheGuardian.com on how they've scaled to 1M unique browser per month using Elasticsearch & Scala

Levi Reich from Thomson Reuters on their Elasticsearch use case, and our very own Peter Kim introduces the ELK stack

Where to find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Director of Developer Relations, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Australia

Leslie Hawthorn and Mark Warkolm will be visiting the Melbourne Search Users Group tomorrow. You'll hear from them on an Introduction to the ELK stack and how to contribute to the ELK community. Mark Wallis from Lexer will also be presenting, discussing Search Interfaces and User Experience. You can still register to attend for this Jan 21 meetup.

Belgium

If you're headed out to FOSDEM (Europe's largest gathering of open source developers!) in Brussels at the end of January, be sure to squeeze time into your schedule for the BeLux (Belgium / Luxembourg) Elasticsearch user group meetup on Friday, January 30.

The Search Meetup Munich group will get together on Feb 5 for a special Elasticsearch edition: Oliver Eilhard on his Elasticsearch Go Client, Alexander Reelsen on the Percolator, plus Q&A with our CTO, Shay Banon. Register now to save your seat.

United Arab Emirates

The Hadoop User Group is gathering in Dubai on January 27 for a meetup. Elasticsearch's own David Pilato will be joining via video conference to give a presentation titled "Make Sense of your (BIG) data!" Get registered today to save your spot.

United Kingdom

If you couldn't decide between the Bath Ruby Battlebot event and the upcoming Elasticsearch meetup, we've got great news: The Elasticsearch meetup has changed dates, so now you can attend both! Get signed up today for this meetup in Bath, now on January 22. Our very own Colin Goodheart-Smithe will be joining for Q&A.

Heading to Monki Gras before FOSDEM? So are we! Alan Hardy will be attending talks and would love to talk all things Elasticsearch & the ELK stack with you in the hallway track. May sure to say hello!

The January London Elasticsearch Meetup is already full up, but you can still join the waitlist. The group convenes on January 29 to talk the ELK stack on AWS, Elasticsearch for Lead Generation and Building UIs with Search Templates.

If you're a star in the Ansible Galaxy, you're no doubt attending AnsibleFest London on Feb 5. Stop by and say hello to Alan Hardy and Samir Bennacer at our table in the exhibits area!

United States

The South Shore .NET user group in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is getting together on January 29 for a presentation on Elasticsearch for data mining. This meetup will be covering Elasticsearch basics and a few other areas, and have you ready to add Elasticsearch to your data analysis toolkit. Sign up to save your spot!

Heading to Strata in San Jose? Join Costin Leau, creator of Elasticsearch for Apache Hadoop, at the conference. We'll update you soon with details of Costin's presentation. Plus, we're working on scheduling an Elasticsearch Silicon Valley Meetup to coincide with Costin's visit. Sty tuned!

Robyn Bergeron will be speaking at SCALE 13x on DevOps + Open Source == BFF Practices! Join her to learn more about DevOps (practice, theory, and otherwise!), shared habits of successful open source communities and DevOps practitioners, and tips for how you or your organization can start applying these habits today.

Where to Find You

PSST! If you're a regular reader of This Week in Elasticsearch, a.k.a TWIES, you're thinking of skipping this section. You may even be thinking to yourself, yes of course I will drop a note on Twitter when I am giving a talk on all things ELK. That's awesome, because we'd like to showcase every meetup, conference presentation and workshop on Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana happening worldwide. And now, we've made it even easier for you to get support for your meetup!

Head on over to our meetups page! (And we'll still totally send you swag if you're giving a talk on anything ELKy at a conference.)

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: